Uganda: Suspected Rwandan rebels arrested-army spokesperson

(SomaliNet) Ugandan government forces arrested 20 men suspected of being members of a Congo-based Rwandan rebel groupa Ugandan army spokesperson announced on Saturday.

Major Felix Kulayigye said the men were arrested on Tuesday but that the government had delayed announcing their detention in one of Uganda\'s most remote districts to allow time for an investigation.

Kulayigye said that documents found with the 20 men from Nakivale refugee camp indicated that they were working with a Rwandan rebel group based in neighbouring Congo that was formed from the remains of deadly Hutu militias in the wake of the 1994 genocide.

\"We have handed them over to Ugandan Police to process their prosecution,\" he said.

Thousands of Rwandan refugees who survived the genocide live in refugee camps in western Uganda and in Congo. They are mainly ethnic Hutu, and say they fear retaliation if they return home.

The Rwandan government has said it suspects some of them may have been involved in the 1994 genocide, in which Hutu extremists incited the murder of 800 000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. - Sapa-AP